Instant Acceleration - Living in the Fast Lane: The Cultural Identity of Speed

Informationen zum Autor Robert R. Sands is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana. Klappentext NOTE Special Title: PAPERBACK OUT OF PRINT 1/22/99 This book is about the relationship between blackness, ethnicity, and speed. It is an in-depth ethnographic and anthropological study of a population of collegiate sprinters, constructed upon a formal model of ethnic and cultural identity which sees social interaction, expressed in the order and arrangement of social identities, as a means of establishing social networks through universal or cognitive rules. Zusammenfassung A study of the relationship between blackness! ethnicity and speed. This ethnography and anthropological study of collegiate sprinters! is constructed upon a model of ethnic and cultural identity which sees social interaction establishing social networks through universal and cognitive rules.

Product details

• Authors: Robert R Sands, Robert R. Sands, Sands Robert R.
• Publisher: University Press Of America
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.1995
• EAN: 9780819195845
• ISBN: 978-0-8191-9584-5
• No. of pages: 150
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Research, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Statistics, Social issues & processes, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social research & statistics, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Social and ethical issues, Social research and statistics, Black & Asian Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General